“I have lived and breathed baseball for 40 years, and I hope to take the many things I have learned from my dad to my high school coach to the many coaches at the major league level and give everything I can to the Calabasas baseball program,” Dibble said in a statement. “This next season will be all about the young men who will play here and the experiences we will share on and off the field. This had been a dream of mine for a long time, I just wish the season started today.”

Pretty decent, thoughtful quote, so I offer a lofty tip of the cap to whoever wrote it for him. If by this time next year we haven’t been gifted with at least a few Wally Backman-like moments, colossal disappointment would be an understatement.